I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.

All right, ’ Nico relented. ‘Maybe a little …’ He managed to take off his aviator jacket and wad it into a pillow before he keeled over and began to snore.

The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up.

Everything will be better in the morning. It always is.

You can't lose yourself.

Turn and face the strange.

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

We need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished, and protected.

When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on.

The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.